Evidently Casey Anthony being found not guilty of murder is a big deal. So big in fact, the bakers of sweet cakes at Entenmann’s decided to weigh in on the results of the trial:

9znam.jpeg

Oops. The company has since pulled that tweet and just issued an apology and blamed it all on a hashtag mixup.

h/t: @raywert

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

10 replies on “Casey Anthony Acquitted! Entenmann’s Guilty of Being Delicious!”

  2. mmmm… delicious pulled tweets.

    @frankieb, Why does disagreement with a verdict cause you to lose faith in our justice system? Do you think Anthony didn’t get a fair trial in front of an impartial jury? In other words, do you have any quibble with anything (i.e. the process) other than the result? If it’s just the result, I’d suggest your problem is with 12 random Floridians, not an entire justice system.

    I disagree with the result, too, but that (on it’s own) doesn’t mean I’ve lost faith in trial by jury.

    I’m in complete agreement re: Florida.

  3. Those poor bastards had to spend three years studying and deliberating this trial. They know more about the case than any of us. If I had faith to lose in moronic Internet commenters and a sensationalistic and bloodthirsty media, I would have lost it.

  5. @ frankieb, Our system isn’t about correct or incorrect – it’s about “did the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Crime X was committed by defendant?” A juror can can be 51%-75%+ sure Crime X was committed, and STILL be required by the law to acquit. Whether the result is “correct” or not, is up to everyone’s individual standards.

    Juries make calls that all of us (like guspasho points out, all of us in our uninformed armchairs) disagree with all the time. That doesn’t mean a) they don’t get it right, or nearly right, nearly all of the time, and b) that it beats any alternative you can present.

    In short, one bad result doesn’t mean the jury system is broken or that we shouldn’t require a very high level of proof before convicting someone for a death-penalty eligible murder.

    Like I said originally, I’m drawing a distinction between being dissatisfied with a single result in a single high-profile case, and being dissatisfied with the structure of the entire justice system.

  8. @CC
    Look, I completely understand what you are saying. I’m not ignorant of how our Court system works, or in this this case, didn’t work to administer justice.
    I was just completely disgusted by the ruling, and alot of the BS we both saw leading up to this judgement.
    The fathers affairs, etc etc…
    I am still losing faith in our system, but as yet am unaware of a better one.

Comments are closed.